Cultural Management
- Collect and destroy the adult beetles, harbouring and feeding in nearby neem, subabul, drumstick trees immediately after the summer showers using powerful petromax lights as a mass campaign in areas near to forest and hilly regions.
- Provide adequate irrigation.
- Deep ploughing immediately after harvesting.
- Avoid ratoon cropping
- Stagnating water for 24 hrs in the field
- Apply Beauveria brongniortii @ 2.5 kg/ha (1*109 cfu/g) entopathogenic fungal formulation along with FYM at the time of planting in endemic regions.